"I would at least have taken you a mile or so round the boulevards if I had known.

But wait! You are sure--that it is the police by whom you are being watched ?" "Quite," Duncombe answered.

"The manager of the hotel has spoken to me about it.

He has asked me, in fact, to leave." "To leave the hotel ?" "Yes! I was on my way to the Ritz to secure rooms when I met you." The Vicomte sipped his absinthe gravely.
"I should not take those rooms," he said.

"You will in all probability not occupy them." "Why not ?" "It has been decided," the Vicomte said, "that you are to be driven out of Paris.